Painting Quotes

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

I found I have to stay painting.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

All gardening is landscape painting.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

Sunlight is painting.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

Easel painting means small painting.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.